Big Government: Democrats have a new plan to win over voters in November. Instead of letting taxpayers keep the money they´re getting from Trump´s tax cuts, they want government to spend $1 trillion of it on wasteful government projects. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined this plan on Wednesday, calling it a "better deal" for Americans. What it entails is "rolling back" $1 trillion worth of the Republican tax cuts that just went into effect, and spending that money on roads, bridges, schools, electric grid and so on. There are several problems with this approach, not least of which is that what Schumer

I seem to recall an illegal immigrant, half-black, light-bringing, stratospheric IQ, magic negro, Indonesian, Kenyan, Hawaiian godlike creature who just tried that with THREE trillion dollars but I don´t remember any results. That part of my past is a little fuzzy. My scientific term for what happened to me is Traumatic Recall.

Chuck you Chuckie. I know that´s all you´ve got but you make Mister Obvious look like the Energizer Bunny.

I wasn´t gonna comment, but since it´s "all about" chuck , I just had to say something. Perhaps this:Charles ... it´s OUR money and we´re getting to keep some. How dare you steal it back for a plot to pander for more votes.

Russia Scandal: For weeks, official Washington and many voters have wondered: Why has there been no official investigation of the Justice Department and the FBI for their apparent misconduct in applying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016? Now we know: Quietly, an investigation has already begun. The question has grown in importance in recent days as Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a letter they sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod

Gun Control: During a keynote speech in Washington, D.C., Barack Obama started talking about guns, and repeated the completely bogus claim that Parkland, Fla., was the 18th school shooting this year. It´s hardly the first time Obama has peddled blatant falsehoods to push gun control. "If you ask me the thing that broke my heart, particularly when now I see there have been, and I´ve gotta update this," Obama said, "18 shootings in schools this year ... this year!" The Washington Examiner first noticed his quote. This is wrong every which way. IBD was one of the first news outlets to explain that

Sunday, March 11, is the start of daylight saving time across the country. But it might be the last time people in Florida have to switch their clocks. The legislature there voted overwhelmingly to abolish the biannual changing of the clock, and stick with daylight saving time year round. Last year, Massachusetts considered a similar move by switching to Atlantic Standard Time, which would permanently set their clocks ahead one hour. Maine also passed bills to ditch daylight saving time. Arizona and Hawaii don´t abide by daylight saving time. The problem Florida faces is that while the law lets states opt out of

Illegal Immigration: The Justice Department´s decision to sue California for violating the U.S. Constitution by obstructing federal immigration enforcement wasn´t made lightly. But given the enormous stakes involved it was necessary, and California deserves to lose, big time. "California, we have a problem," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech Wednesday. "Here´s my message — how dare you. How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open borders agenda." Bingo. California´s Democratic Party has moved so far to the left of the political spectrum, it can no longer be considered a

Big Government: Democrats have a new plan to win over voters in November. Instead of letting taxpayers keep the money they´re getting from Trump´s tax cuts, they want government to spend $1 trillion of it on wasteful government projects. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined this plan on Wednesday, calling it a "better deal" for Americans. What it entails is "rolling back" $1 trillion worth of the Republican tax cuts that just went into effect, and spending that money on roads, bridges, schools, electric grid and so on. There are several problems with this approach, not least of which is that what Schumer

When Bill Clinton was president, the liberal media establishment flogged itself for focusing on scandal over substance. In a four-hour PBS special during the fall election season of 1996, elitist Hedrick Smith confessed: "By focusing on scandal and conflict over substance, and by our increasingly negative tone, the media has distorted the nation´s agenda and lost touch with the public we claim to serve." No one can imagine Smith complaining like this now that Donald Trump lives in the White House. One´s a Democrat, the other a Republican. One is a man they genuinely admire, the other a man they genuinely

Aussie Downer: You might not know the name of Alexander Downer, but you should. The former Australian Foreign Minister and current Australian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Downer is the person who actually started the ball rolling in creating the anti-Trump dossier. And, it turns out, he´s a Clintonite. Downer sat down for a pint or two in a London pub with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos back in 2016. Papadopoulos claimed to Downer that the Russians had some nasty information on Hillary Clinton. Downer subsequently told the FBI. And the FBI then began investigating not Clinton, but possible ties between

Election 2018: Democrats expect that fierce anti-Trump sentiment will sweep them into power in the House, if not the Senate, this November. If that fails to happen, they are already preparing their excuse: Russian meddling. Just as in 2016, Democrats — as well as various political pundits — are certain of victory. "Democrats may have already won the House," declared the news site Axios this week, citing four reasons the election was a lock. Certainly, history favors Democratic gains in November, since the party out of power tends to pick up dozens of seats in the midterm elections, particularly when the sitting president

Wages: On Monday, CaliBurger started its newest "employee," a learning robot that can cook 150 hamburgers an hour. Flippy doesn´t just flip hamburgers, he exposes why raising the minimum-wage hurts workers. Flippy, built my Miso Robotics, uses thermal imaging to tell it precisely when to flip each patty, allowing for more or less perfect consistency. And it supposedly will get smarter the more burgers it flips, and various attachments will eventually let it handle other aspects of the burger-making process. The fact that CaliBurger decided to use its Pasadena, Calif., restaurant to launch Flippy is instructive. In less than three

President Trump´s approval rating gained two points in March, bringing his approval rating to 37%, the highest approval rating for Trump since last September. The March poll also found that the level of financial stress in the country has reached a new low. While Trump´s approval rating edged up, his disapproval rating remained unchanged from last month at 58%. His favorability rating was unchanged from February at -19 (38% viewing his leadership favorably vs. 57% who view him unfavorably). The IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index remained essentially unchanged at 39.9. This index combines survey questions on the president´s leadership, favorability and job approval. Trump

The vast majority of the public says something other than insufficient gun laws was the main cause of the Florida high school shooting, which claimed the lives of 17 people. But they nevertheless want more gun control laws, including a ban on "assault weapons." The poll found that just 22% say that insufficient gun laws are the main cause of mass shootings like the one that took place in Parkland, Fla. Instead, 73% blame either mental health issues, or cultural degradation, or lack of enforcement of existing gun laws. On a partisan basis, Republicans are most likely to blame mental

Welfare: Long favored on the left, the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) is enjoying a current vogue even among some conservatives. But don´t be confused by the bipartisanship: no matter who likes the idea, it´s a bad one. The UBI idea has attracted a varied group of backers, including entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, former Service Employees International Union chief Andy Stern and libertarian thinker Charles Murray. It enjoys public popularity, too. A recent Gallup and Northeastern University poll found that 48% of Americans said they would support a universal basic income, while 52% said they would

Talk of “sex change” is a scientific misnomer, argues philosopher Ryan T. Anderson in a recent article, since it is impossible to change someone’s sex by bombarding them with hormones or performing cosmetic surgery on them. A person can pretend to be a member of the opposite sex, Dr. Anderson notes, but it will never be more than play-acting since one’s biological sex is a physical reality outside the individual’s control. “Modern science shows that our sexual organization begins with our DNA and development in the womb, and that sex differences manifest themselves in many bodily systems and organs, all the way

Fox News is in sleazy Watters yet again. The network’s prominent host Jesse Watters — who dined on Monday with President Trump — is in the midst of divorce due to an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer. Watters’ wife, Noelle Watters, filed for divorce in October. The couple has twin girls. Sources said the 39-year-old host informed the network of his adulterous relationship with Emma DiGiovine shortly after Noelle filed divorce papers. DiGiovine was transferred to “The Ingraham Angle.” DiGiovine and Watters are still dating, sources said. A woman at DiGiovine’s home in Cranford, N.J., declined to comment.

Obama is at it again. Concerned about his crumbling legacy and unable to bear life out of the spotlight, the former president is in talks with Netflix "to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House," as the New York Times, which got the scoop, put it. Let that sink in. The man is seeking to rewrite history, his own history, the better to influence the public to think he wasn´t such a bad president after all, through a television series about himself where he controls all the content. It

“When I was born,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said through a plume of smoke, “you had all these movements. You had the anti-Vietnam War movement, you had the Panthers, you had King’s nonviolent movement, you had N.A.A.C.P., you had black power — all this flurry of activity. Then Dr. King gets killed. And what happened? Who won the election in ’68? Richard Nixon.” Folded into a far corner of the Grand Havana Room, a private Midtown cigar club on the penthouse floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, Mr. Sharpton looked downright stately. Reporters have tagged along with him to the Grand Havana

A student who attends Indiana University of Pennsylvania was barred from a religious studies course that he needed to complete in order to graduate after stating the fact that there are only two genders. The student, Luke Ingle, was barred from class after objecting to claims made in a video featuring a transgender individual, countering with the argument that there are only two genders. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Ingle commented: “Later this week I will be defending myself and my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS in front of the Academic Integrity Board (AIB) of the Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania (IUP) against allegations

A video of a woman named Perla Morales-Luna getting arrested by Border Patrol agents in California while her daughters look on has sparked outrage after it spread across social media.The video shows Morales-Luna, who authorities publicly identified, getting pushed into a border patrol vehicle on March 3 while her children watched in National City, California. Teaching aide Judith Castro-Gonzalez posted the video to Facebook on Thursday, according to CBS Los Angeles, reportedly stating that one of Morales-Luna’s daughters was her student. Subsequently, the video quickly made the rounds on social media. The San Diego branch of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn´t running for president in 2020. "I am not running for president in 2020," Warren told CNN´s Jim Acosta on Saturday. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and staunch critic of President Donald Trump, made the statement in an interview for CNN´s "State of the Union," scheduled to air at 9 a.m., ET, on Sunday. The lawmaker said the same thing to Chuck Todd of NBC News in an interview for "Meet the Press" when pressed about her Senate re-election campaign and her pledge to fulfill her six-year term. "For the people of Massachusetts, and for the

President Trump shocked the world Thursday night when it was announced that he planned to sit down with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in the coming months. The political world was so overwhelmed by the news that even the journalists at CNN were more or less optimistic. Yet over at MSNBC, host Rachel Maddow was anything but enthused by the idea as she spewed skepticism and threw shade at the commander-in-chief for accepting North Korea’s offer. Towards the beginning of her bitter rant, Maddow seemed to question the President’s intelligence and/or knowledge of history for taking the meeting: You might

Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte Coffee refuses to serve police due to a concern for the “safety of customers.” The policy came to light after NBC Bay Area reported the coffee shop refused to serve an officer in uniform on February 16. KCRA reports that the store took to social media, saying, “We have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” An Instagram post by Hasta Muerte provides an overview of the store’s position, saying in part: We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that

Brighton & Hove City Council will equip staff with badges declaring their “preferred pronouns” as part of a project seeking to educate the public that making assumptions about a person’s sex “can be hurtful and distressing”. Council and voluntary sector staff in the city will be “encouraged” to wear the badges, which include messages such as “My pronouns are she/her/hers” and “My pronouns are they/their/theirs” when they are distributed in the week leading up to ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ on March 31. (Snip) The badges will come in a range of different designs reading “My pronoun is”, including customisable ones on which people

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson revealed, in an opinion piece this week about the 2020 election, a bizarre superstition. For the Guardian, Abramson — who famously has a Times-inspired tattoo — wrote, “It’s easy to look at what’s happening in Washington, DC, and despair. That’s why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African-American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it

The liberal world´s favorite Darwinist and favorite atheist, Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, recently expressed his support for meat grown in a laboratory, so-called "clean meat," and wondered what if "human meat is grown" and could this help us to "overcome our taboo against cannibalism?" Today, scientists are able to produce animal-free "meat," such as chicken, beef, turkey and fish, grown in a lab from the cells of these animals. Supporters of this enterprise, such as Memphis Meats, see it as a way to reduce slaughter-house-style meat and help the environment by reducing the greenhouse gases emitted in